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<h1 align="center"><span class="pagetitle">About Miscellaneous HTML Elements...</span><br>
<font size=2>= <span class="sitetitle">Index DOT Html</span> by <a href="../../misc/email.htm">Brian Wilson</a> =</font></h1>
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<dt><big><b class="mainheading">Justification For the Miscellaneous HTML Element category</b></big>
    <dd>In classifying all of the HTML elements into categories, there were bound
        to be some elements that defied classification in the established conventional
        categories. Some of these elements have characteristics that could easily place
        them in several of the element categories, while others exhibit traits not found
        in any of the categories. I will try to describe my decision for placing each
        of these elements here.
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<dt><a href="b/basefont.htm">BASEFONT</a>
    <dd>Basefont is somewhat of an anomaly. It is used to define the
        behavior of relative changes within the FONT element as well as the
        default text size for blocks of text in some browsers. As such it
        behaves as neither a true inline character formatting element or a
        block formatting element. Hindsight of existing behavior makes one wonder 
        if this element would have been better suited to a BODY element attribute 
        or a HEAD element.

<dt><a href="b/bdo.htm">BDO</a>
    <dd>BDO is an element that is aimed specifically at addressing language
        flow directionality issues in HTML documents. It specifically addresses
        internationalization concerns, but it can not be easily grouped with
        other element behaviors.

<dt><a href="h/hr.htm">HR</a>
    <dd>The horizontal rule element is another orphan. It is a replaced element
        that produces a somewhat graphical effect (Multimedia), inserts a
        linebreak before and after (Block Formatting) and has a semantic
        structural document purpose (Character and Block formatting.)

<dt><a href="s/spacer.htm">SPACER</a>
    <dd>The SPACER element is a Netscape-ism that really has no place in
        the document structure. Judging by behavior and structure, this element
        most closely resembles the IMG element, but its only purpose is to act as 
        an empty screen formatting element - contrary to the original intent of HTML.

<dt><a href="x/xml.htm">XML</a>
    <dd>This element produces an island of XML content within an HTML document.
        As such, its content isn't actually HTML, so is difficult to classify.

<dt><a href="c/comment.htm">COMMENT and &lt;!-- --&gt;</a>
    <dd>The true SGML comment (&lt;!-- --&gt;) and to some extent the HTML
        &lt;COMMENT&gt; act outside the boundaries of normal HTML behavior.
        Comments can be used anywhere within an HTML document structure and
        were arbitrarily put into this section for...safe-keeping? =)
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<dt><b class="subheading">Official References</b>
<dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt" class="relevant">http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">RFC 1866: The HTML 2.0 specification (plain text)</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The web version of the HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866) specification</span>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/" class="relevant">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">The HTML 3.2 (Wilbur) recommendation<br>
        [Includes all HTML 2 elements and newer extensions to the HR element]</span>
<dt><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html" class="relevant">http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/html_extensions.html</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Netscape Extensions to HTML 2.0<br>
        [Usage of BASEFONT for the SIZE attribute, extensions to the HR element, and HTML comments as well]</span>
<dt><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/relnotes/windows-3.0.html#Layout" class="relevant">http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/relnotes/windows-3.0.html#Layout</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Netscape 3.0 release notes<br>
        [Details the use of the SPACER element]</span>
<dt><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp" class="relevant">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Internet Explorer Tag reference<br>
        [Details BASEFONT usage for Color, Face and Size, as well as HR extensions]</span>
<dt><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/XML.asp" class="relevant">http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/XML.asp</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">Internet Explorer Tag reference<br>
        [Details XML element usage]</span>
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<dt><b class="subheading">Other Related Links</b>
<dt><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000930173253/http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/sfk/table/spacers.html" class="relevant">http://web.archive.org/web/20000930173253/http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/sfk/table/spacers.html</a>
    <dd><span class="relevant">[Very interesting use of HRs and tables to produce simple graphics patterns - now from archive.org due to LinkRot]</span>
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